Original artwork description:

Suspended between Light and Unfelt Movement

Acrylic on canvas
100 × 100 cm
Signed and dated 2020

Belonging to the Between the Dark and Divine series, the painting occupies a liminal field in which material density and immaterial suggestion coexist in sustained tension. The work presents not so much an image as a state, unfolding slowly through stratified surfaces and restrained chromatic transitions. Muted violets, ash greys, and softened earth tones accumulate and dissolve, generating a sense of temporal depth rather than spatial certainty.

The composition refuses a central point of focus. Intersecting planes and fragmented passages guide perception without stabilizing it, producing a rhythm that oscillates between compression and release. These structural tensions are counterbalanced by moments of discreet illumination, seemingly embedded within the very substance of the surface. Light is not represented as an external source but appears as residue, revealed through translucency, abrasion, and reflective interruption.

Materiality is essential to the work’s affective force. Scraped textures, veiled layers, and visible revisions suggest processes of erosion, endurance, and return. The surface bears the marks of time as accumulation rather than narrative, while darkness is asserted not as absence but as an active field that conditions perception. Luminosity emerges gradually, without spectacle, sustained by what resists it.

The painting offers no horizon, figure, or symbolic anchor. Instead, it opens an interior territory in which movement is sensed rather than seen. Subtle shifts of tone and texture create the impression of latent dynamics, as though the painting were suspended between states, holding its energy in reserve. The viewer is invited not to interpret, but to remain, allowing perception to unfold through duration.

Within the Between the Dark and Divine series, Composition 9 articulates liminality as both a formal strategy and a conceptual position. The work does not seek resolution, nor does it assert transcendence through clarity. Instead, it acknowledges the condition of “in-between” as generative, where uncertainty and persistence coexist. The sacred, if present, remains quiet and provisional, encountered not beyond materiality, but within its very fractures.

Materials used:

acrylic hand painting on stretched canvas / ready to hang

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